Oh my gosh!

I've been growing my hair out for a while now. A couple years, actually. I started to do so after I'd had it cut short when Charlie was a baby. I had thought that I wanted it long, and then it got so long that I really couldn't stand it anymore, and the kicker was having another baby around to pull it CONSTANTLY. Anyway, it was so long that I really wanted to be able to do something useful with it. You know the mantra reduce, reuse, recycle. So I kept growing it just to be sure that I had the required 10 inches for a donation to Locks of Love.

Last night I washed and conditioned my hair one last time and took some pics. I was so nervous about the whole thing that Paul didn't even know which way to encourage me. So I visited the Locks of Love website to look at pics at all the beautiful children that get to have hair only because of donations like this, and it was all the motivation I needed!
This morning I showed up at Anne Welsh, a really great salon in Del Ray, our beautiful neighborhood in Alexandria. As it turns out, Joan cut off 14 inches!!! What do you think?

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